In this video I tactically automate Instagram to extract Recent Posts. Instead of using the API I use screen scraping to get started fast and treat the Application as an API.
► An introduction to PHP
► An overview of REGEX in PHP
► Screen Scraping Web Site using PHP
► Processing JSON in PHP
► Add assertions to live code to guard against application changes
– previously talked about APP as API
– here is a good example
– Instagram have an API which requires a dev key etc.
– But instagram also have a GUI which does not require logging in or API key
– Instagram GUI is primarily JavaScript based i.e. when we issue a request we don’t get an HTML page we get a page dyanmically created from an embedded JSON payload
– To automate then:
– call the page
– treat most of the page as a header
– treat most of the page as a footer
– pull out the embedded JSON and parse
– There are risks to this:
– it isn’t an official API
– they might change the JSON
– they might change the page format
– there are many ways this might break
– so code against those ways and assert on your expectations
– walk through the PHP code that does this
See also my video on Ruthless Efficiency where I start to automate Instagram –
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